the object was not to stay alive but to stay human.

The euro is alive and well. The euro is here to stay.

If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.

It's not how fast you get there, but how long you stay.

I think it's here now, but it may not stay,

Stay where I am? Jesus Christ, what choice do I have? This house is twenty-five hundred square feet of tomb. I'm not alive. I'm buried alive.